Monthly Archives: June 2008

Permanent redirect (301) with lighttpd

If you want to redirect visitors that access your website without the ‘www’, you can use mod_redirect with the following syntax: $HTTP[”host”] =~ “^lescampeurs\.org” { url.redirect = ( ”^/(.*)$” => “http://www.lescampeurs.org/$1″ ) } Links: Lighttpd mod_redirect HTTP 3xx status codes

A new article about Google data centers

On the other hand, Dean seemingly thinks clusters of 1,800 servers are pretty routine, if not exactly ho-hum. … that would mean Google has more than 200,000 servers, … Co-founder Larry Page encourages a “healthy disrespect for the impossible” at Google Dean described three core elements of Google’s software: GFS, the Google File System, BigTable, [...]

Rotate Apache logs with Cronolog

Cronolog is log rotation program which gives you a lot of options to template the log destination files. The common use is to split logs by year / month / day. Here is how to configure Apache to send log entries to cronolog : CustomLog “|/usr/sbin/cronolog /home/log/apache2/%Y-%m-%d_domain.com_access.log” combined This will create a log file named [...]